History of the 11th Light Horse Regiment, Fourth Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Forces, War 1914-1919
Brisbane, William Brooks and Co., 1942.
Octavo, [xvi], 186 pages with an illustration and 4 maps plus 67 pages of plates (containing 108 plates in all); the regimental colour patch is printed in three colours on the title page.
Maroon sand-grain cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover; cloth a little stained and rubbed, with two small worm holes to the spine and front cover (with some short tracks visible on the front pastedown); edges marked; binding a little shaken, and cracked between some gatherings; trifling remnants of the original tipped-in plain opaque paper dustwrapper on the leading edges of the pastedowns (as often); minimal adhesive residue to one page (from an old insert); paper a little tanned; some scattered foxing; overall, a decent copy.
This is a rare item, with provenance from two light horsemen. An inscription on the front free endpaper reads: 'Originally owned by the late [868 Corporal] Jack Ledlie but given to me by his widow Olive. Clive Kynaston. 512 - 12th ALH'. A second inscription in the same hand at the head of one of the contents pages indicates that he later presented the book to '2/14 QMI' [Queensland Mounted Infantry]. The author was Signal Sergeant of the Regiment. Dornbusch 393; Fielding and O'Neill, page 233; Trigellis-Smith 282.
Item #129472
Price (AUD):
$900.00